69829: He wiped over his socks for three days when he was not travelling. Does he have to repeat his prayers for the two days?

I did wudoo’ for three consecutive days wearing the same socks, without taking off those socks, although the time when a person can wipe over his socks is one day and one night for one who is not travelling. Are my prayers on the second and third days valid, or do I have to repeat them because I went beyond the time when one may wipe over the socks?.

Praise be to Allaah.

The saheeh Sunnah indicates that the time for wiping over the
khuffayn (leather slippers) for one who is not travelling is one day and one
night, and for one who is travelling it is three days and nights. Wiping
over the socks is like wiping over the khuffayn.

Muslim (276) narrated that Shurayh ibn Haani’ said: I came to
‘Aa’ishah and asked her about wiping over the khuffayn. She said: “You
should go and ask Ibn Abi Taalib, for he used to travel with the Messenger
of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).” So we asked him
and he said: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) stipulated three days and nights for the traveller, and one day
and night for the one who is not travelling.”

Al-Tirmidhi (95), Abu Dawood (157) and Ibn Maajah (553)
narrated from Khuzaymah ibn Thaabit (may Allaah be pleased with him) that
the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was asked about
wiping over the khuffayn and he said: “For the traveller, three and for the
non-traveller, one day.” Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh
al-Tirmidhi.

Al-Tirmidhi (96), al-Nasaa’i (127) and Ibn Maajah (478)
narrated that Safwaan ibn ‘Assaal (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to
command us when we were travelling not to take off our leather slippers for
three days and nights, except in the case of janaabah, but not in the case
of defecating, urinating or sleeping.” This hadeeth was classed as hasan by
al-Albaani.

Secondly:

The most correct view of the fuqaha’ is that the period
begins from the first time a person wipes over his leather slippers after
breaking his wudoo’, not from the time when he put them on or from the first
time he broke his wudoo’ after putting them on. So if a person does wudoo’
for Fajr prayer, and puts on his leather slippers, then he breaks his wudoo’
at nine o’clock in the morning but does not do wudoo’, then he does wudoo’
at twelve o’clock, then the period for wiping over them starts at twelve
o’clock, and lasts for one day and one night, or twenty-four hours.

Al-Nawawi (may Allaah
have mercy on him) said: al-Awzaa’i and Abu Thawr said: The time starts from
when he wipes over them after breaking wudoo’. This was narrated from Ahmad
and Dawood, and is the view which is most likely to be correct, based on the
evidence. It was also the view favoured by Ibn al-Mundhir, and something
similar was narrated from ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with
him).

End quote from al-Majmoo’, 1/512

This is what was
regarded as more likely to be correct by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah
have mercy on him), who said: Because the ahaadeeth say “the one who is not
travelling may wipe” and “the traveller may wipe”, and he only comes under
the heading of one who wipes after he wipes for the first time. This is the
correct view.

Al-Sharh al-Mumti’, 1/186

Thirdly:

A number of scholars, including Ibn Hazm and Shaykh al-Islam
Ibn Taymiyah, are of the view that the state of purity does not end when the
period for wiping over the socks or leather slippers ends, because there is
no evidence to suggest that. Rather the state of purity comes to an end when
it is invalidated by one of the things that are known to invalidate it, such
as passing wind.

Based on this, if a
person is in a state of purity and the time for wiping over the socks ends
before Zuhr, he may pray Zuhr and subsequent prayers with that previous
state of purity, until he breaks his wudoo’.

Based on the above:

If the period for wiping over the socks ended and you were
not in a state of purity, then you have to repeat all the prayers that you
offered after the time for wiping over the socks ended and you did not wash
your feet.

If the time for wiping over the socks ended and you were in a
state of purity, then you only have to repeat the prayers from the time when
you first broke your wudoo’ after that time ended.